CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1658

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 20, 1995   Yeas 96   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 14, 1995   Yeas 48   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1658 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1658

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Pennington, Hatfield, Morris, Basich, Boldt, Chandler and Benton)

Read first time 03/01/95.

Providing that filled or altered wetlands shall not be considered or treated as wetlands.

     AN ACT Relating to the filling or altering of wetlands; and adding a new section to chapter 75.20 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.20 RCW to read as follows:

     The department may not require mitigation for adverse impacts on fish life or habitat that occurred at the time a wetland was filled, if the wetland was filled under the provisions of RCW 75.20.300.

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